TIGHT
Vol. 4 #5, December 1993

PO Box 1591
Guerneville CA, 95446

72 pp., $4.50

TIGHT covers
all points of the poetry otherstream about as completely
as a small mag can. It seems that Ann tries to present
a representative sample of everything known to her,
and this is probably the fairest thing an editor can
do, but so few even try, preferring to opt for some
particular bias. Some of the things that caught me
on first pass were the excerpts from Al Hellus's "pieces
of 13 dreams": "the bones of the catfish
assemble/ and form an act of leaving", or from
"Revelry" by Mahdy Y. Khaiyat, "The
bodies fuse/ Under the shadow of the alpenglow."
There is much accessible free verse, etc. here as
well.--Jake Berry